Wichita eagle., 1887-09-01
AMONG THE LAKES.
BUFFALO, Mimi, Aug. %, IS,

To the Editor of the Eagle
Remembering that promised to ''go you
once while among the lakes, l know of nc
more fitting time than the present, having
just eaten an enormous dinner in which a
nine pound baked pickerel and stewed
squirrel (all caught and shot by We subscrib-
err composed part of the menu of regu-
lar old fashioned New England cooked din
ner. Well, here we are on Lake Pulaski,
one and one-half miles from the town of
Buffalo and lake of the same name. Pulas.
XII is the most beautiful as well as the
most singular lake l ever saw. With pic
turesque beach of nine miles fringed
with birch, walnut, poplar and
oak timber, its waters so trans
parent, that indescribable submarine forests
forty and fifty feet below the surface is
plainly observable depth of 175 feet
| with neither inlet or outlet, fed exclusively
by springs, the water Is so cold thai bath
ing in the lake is impossible, all contrib
ute to make this singular and beautiful
lake. And then the fishing-it is good to
picture the beauties of the brook trout on
the sunset side Of the big divide-accesi-
BILE to the tourist only through the patient
toll of the diminutive broncho, but listen, |
here is this beautiful lake with its millions
of the finney tribe but one mile distant
from the training control of the iron horse, |!
and but forty miles distant from one Of the
busiest clues CT the western world. Min
neapolis,) with all these civilizing influences
surrounding US. It makes fishing In the
rockies seem difficult and deceptive. But
Z haven't told you of the
fish yet Well there are millions of black
and rock bass, pickerel, Mackinaw trout
and Columbia salmon, the last two planted
by the government, to say nothing of the
innumerable small fry, can be taken with
the fly or spoon-yes, often with frog.
Mrs w. and myself fish about one hour
each day, our catch running from Twenty
five to seventy pounds, actual weight,
have made a regular pack mule of
myself while here. We have the landlady !
to take all she can use; then l string the
balance on pole and 'tote" them to town
and give them to people who have lived
here for twenty years and never caught a
decent string OF fish in their lives This |
we have done every day, Sundays except
ed, for more than two weeks Our largest |
fish, so far, were q five pound bass and q
fifteen and one-half pound pickerl,
but we are striving for better things and a
higher altitude.
Think Of all these things and then learn
that boats, fishing tackle-the elegant rooms
and a marvellous fiae table for-will you
believe me-three dollars and fifty cents
per week? Is it any wonder that we linger, |
even though the season Is over, with the
thermometer ranging from 40 degrees
above at s o'clock in the morning to sixty
five al o'clock p. m. Every morning and
evening q roaring fire is built in cur sitting
room, and overcoat and wraps are COM
Portable until ten o'clock each day. Such
Is the August weather on the lakes sur
rounding the cities of the northwest
We shall spend another week here and
then do the grea: exposition at Minneap-
oils for few days and then home to
Wichita, the fairest. brightest, busiest city
Of them all
Misery, It's said. loves company. 50 lei
me say to the disconsolate Of The happy |
valley tha. that portion Of Eastern Iowa
through which We passed is literally burned |
up. Small grain In this state Is not one
fourth Of crop and of very inferior
quality Many farmers have not ssrDeTed
as many bushels as they sowed- While
Minnesota Is not a corn country and bat
little planted. sc; this year the yield VIII he
good
We have succeeded by dat Of Euch /
labor and some cusssn' In extracting sgvtn
EAGLES from the Clevelsnd possal con-
pany In The past four weeks-conmeni 10
unnecessary. L. ~ "